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RING IN THE OLD! - Mark's New Year Movie Vault We’ve come to that time of year when we critics advise you to skip New Year’s Eve and rent a movie instead. Better yet, rent a New Year movie, for it’s a curious fact that almost any film about December 31st somehow takes on the same depressing, desperate quality as the night itself. The great exception is Ocean’s Eleven (1960), in which the Rat Pack plot a five-casino heist in Vegas. That’s a jollier way than most to spend New Year’s Eve, and, as readers may recall, I’m especially fond...